Azure Cost Calculators
Free Azure calculators for VMs, SQL Database, managed disks and blob storage, priced from Microsoft's Retail Prices API.
4 free tools · no login · no upload required
Pick by question
- What will my Azure VMs cost each month, on Linux or Windows?Azure VM Cost Calculator
- Reservation, savings plan or Spot: which saves the most?Azure VM Cost Calculator
- Serverless or provisioned for my Azure SQL database?Azure SQL Database Cost Calculator
- Why is my disk bill higher than the data on it?Azure Managed Disk Calculator
- Is Premium SSD v2 cheaper for my disks?Azure Managed Disk Calculator
- Which blob tier is cheapest for my data?Azure Blob Storage Tier Calculator
Tools
Azure VM Cost Calculator
Price Azure VMs on Linux or Windows at pay-as-you-go, Spot, reservation and savings plan rates, in 13 regions.
Azure SQL Database Cost Calculator
Compare Azure SQL Database serverless and provisioned on your usage, with reservations and Hybrid Benefit, in 13 regions.
Azure Managed Disk Calculator
See the Azure disk size you are billed for, what empty space costs, and what Premium SSD v2 saves.
Azure Blob Storage Tier Calculator
Compare Azure Hot, Cool, Cold and Archive storage on your access pattern, with retrieval and early-delete fees counted.
What drives the cost
Azure prices several things differently from AWS, and that is where estimates go wrong.
Managed disks: you pay for the size tier
A managed disk bills at its size tier, rounded up: a 600 GiB disk bills as a 1,024 GiB P30. Azure cannot shrink disks, so the fix is a new, smaller disk or Premium SSD v2, billed per GiB.
Blob storage: cheaper tiers have fees
Cool, Cold and Archive charge to read data, and set minimum storage periods of 30, 90 and 180 days. Delete sooner and you pay for the remaining days pro rata.
VMs: Windows nearly doubles the price
A Windows license nearly doubles a D-series VM, and reservations and savings plans do not discount it. Azure Hybrid Benefit removes it if you own the licenses.
SQL Database: serverless or provisioned
A serverless vCore-hour costs about twice a provisioned one. Serverless wins only if the database is idle or paused much of the month.
Where the rates come from
Rates come from the Azure Retail Prices API by script, so the date shown is the day it ran.
Other categories
List prices are the start. Your agreement is the end.
Finitizer connects to your Azure subscriptions read-only, applies the rates you actually pay, and finds the disks sitting over a SKU boundary and the reservations going unused.
See how Finitizer works